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Changes at the OCR

For those of you that don't get your news and views exclusively from Red County--doubt it is many of you, but Red County doesn't have much of a Sports Section--it looks like there will be a new sheriff in town at the OC Register.  The OCR and LAT are reporting that N. Christian Anderson III is leaving.  He's been the OCR's publisher since 1999.  The replacement will be Terry Horne, publisher of the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona. Freedom Communications, Inc. owns both papers, so I doubt there will be any radical changes.

Maybe Jubal can send Terry a welcoming fruit basket with the note:  "Welcome to town...fix your website."

I haven't checked, is the EV Trib's website better than the OCR's?

In case you were wondering, in sports news:  Dodgers lost, Garret Anderson (and the rest of the Angels) won big over the Yankees.  And for you whiny purists, yes OC sports is not OC politics.  But politics is chiefly about securing the greatest good for the people.  Given that the Yankees are evil, the Angels have, therefore, done good for our polis--regardless of any dispute over which polis they are actually in.

Yet More OC Register Website Lameness

I've learned recently that when doing the morning News Roundup, I cannot trust I'll find all the top news simply by looking at the OC Register's website, and so I've started looking at the print edition first so I'll know what to look for on the website.

Today I see the top-of-the-fold story in the "Marketplace" section: "Age Discrimination Alleged." It's about a 60-year old man whose alleging age discrimination is why the Orange County Sheriff's Department turned him down as a deputy recruit.

Unfortunately, I couldn't include it in the News Roundup because it is nowhere to be found on the OC Register website.

Not only that, there is no "Marketplace" tab in the website tabs that correspond to the different sections of the newspaper. There's one called "Money." While a reasonable person will make the connection, it wouldn't be two hard for the online and print versions of the same section to have the same name.

I have a dream...that someday the OC Register will have a website that doesn't stink.